@coachtonyholler.bsky.social
“Feed the Cats”, “Sprint-Based Football”, track coach Plainfield North, writer, runner, reader, @pntrack, YouTube content: Coach Tony Holler, coaching courses: CoachTube
"You're gathering people together that are different...and trying to get them going in the same direction."
🎙️ @coachtonyholler.bsky.social on how coaching principles overlap w/ political/social values + unifying 'inarguables' of Feed The Cats + Bernie Sanders ⤵️
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"I'm a coach & I love to talk sports, but maybe we need to talk more to remind each other that, Damnit we're all Americans."
🎙️ @coachtonyholler.bsky.social kicks off Ep. 1 of the Truth In The Arena podcast--focus on how our coaching & political principles intersect.
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He seemed pure-cat to me.
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First third of my “What Is Sprint-Based Football” presentation at TFC-XXI.
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"When should you stay conservative and *fall to the level of your systems* and when do you burn the boats and go with your gut?"
📈 @nate-huffstutter.bsky.social shares takeaways & follow-up questions from @coachtonyholler.bsky.social & the TFC Chicago 2024 Clinic
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“I was as traditional as any young coach could possibly be & the way I used to coach is still the traditional thing I have to preach against. Which is basically that your entire plan is to OUTWORK everyone else."
🎙️ @coachtonyholler.bsky.social on coaching evolution
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25.11.2024 21:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When I was young, I was an old-school coach.
I was a poor loser and was proud of it.
I believed the best coaches were intolerant of losing.
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Ways to gamify practice.
1) Create performance-level, game-like conditions in practice.
2) Compete! Keep score. Time things. Measure stuff. Record-Rank-Publish. (Poker played without money ain’t poker.)
3) Promote an atmosphere of cut-throat playfulness.
5 Single-Leg Bound Contest
Sam Appia (Fr) 47’0” (black shirt)
Antonio Anderson 45’5” (white shirt)
Evan Singh 43’11”
Treycen Bownes 43’10”
Keith Cyracus 43’3”
Marriel Macon 42’2”
Omar Coleman 42’0”
Tyton Bownes 41’11”
Single-leg hop race (5y into a 10y fly) Freelap timed.
Antonio Anderson 1.62
Omar Coleman 1.66 (1.60 in prelims)
Keith Cyracus 1.73
Mariell Macon 1.73
Kevin Wilson 1.76
Amaree Jones 1.81
Antonio in white, Omar in black ⤵️
Long then High
Hurdle was 17’ from bleacher.
Keith Cyracus (23’ long jumper)
Drop, Long, High
Keith Cyracus (23’ long jumper)
And, it was Keith’s idea. 🙂
“Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.” ~Nietzsche
18.11.2024 03:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"The lazy lose to the average.
The average lose to the focused.
The focused lose to the obsessed."
~@farnamstreet
"Kids are good at what they like, obsessed with what they love." ~#FeedTheCats
"Stop worrying about where the arrow lands. Master the art of drawing the bow." ~@farnumstreet
"Burn your goals, go on a mission, surrender to the result." ~@JoshuaMedcalf
Lacrosse! simplifaster.com/articles/lac...
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16.11.2024 23:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Love your work.
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My latest podcast. This one with Ireland’s Mike Quirke.
Apple: bit.ly/4exoWZ3
Spotify: bit.ly/3YTxhR7
Sophomore Xavier Owens won the “6-Bound” going 55’5”.
15.11.2024 01:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anything over 30’ in the Triple Broad Jump is very good. Here, Omar Coleman goes 30’6”.
15.11.2024 01:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Feed the Cats!
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